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Awards History


Annual New England Conference on Multicultural Education (NECME)
Multicultural Education Awards

Past Award Recipients


Multicultural Educator of the Year

  • Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1998)
     

P-12 Multicultural Educator of the Year

  • Mary Leger, Teacher, East Hartford High School (1999)

  • Christopher Clouet, Principal, Bristol Central High School (2000)

  • Jefferson Wiggins, New Fairfield Public Schools (2001)

  • Noreen Hughes, Marilyn Baziak and Diane Stawiarski, State School Teachers, Carl Robinson Correctional Institution, USD #1 (2002)

  • Jan Huber, Killingly Public Schools (2003)

  • Marji Lipshez-Shapiro, Anti-Defamation League (2004)

  • Joan Edwards, Greenwich Academy (2005)

  • Edward Linehan, New Haven Public Schools (2006)

  • Braulio Santiago, New Britain Public Schools (2007)

  • Diane Kearney, Manchester Public Schools (2008)

  • Marisa Vanasse, Springfield Renaissance School. Springfield, Massachusetts (2010)
     

Higher Education Multicultural Faculty of the Year 

  • Judith Buzzell, Professor, Southern Connecticut State University (1999)

  • Elizabeth Aaronsohn, Central Connecticut State University (2000)

  • Robert Forbes, Yale University (2001)

  • Angela Rola, Director, Asian American Cultural Center, University of Connecticut (2002)

  • Jose B. Gonzalez, Associate Professor of English, US Coast Guard Academy (2003)

  • Sandy Marie Anglas Grande, Connecticut College (2004)

  • Gloria Graves Holmes (2005)

  • Lois Libby, Sacred Heart University (2006)

  • Lorrie Stoops Verplaetse, Southern Connecticut State University (2008)
     

Multicultural Program or Institution of the Year

  • Southern Connecticut Conference Dream Teams, Coordinator: David Maloney, Assistant Principal, Branford High School (1999)

  • Differences, Coordinator: Terry Hess, Coleytown Elementary School, Westport (2000)

  • John Moses, KidsLink Program, Saxe Middle School, New Canaan (2001)

  • Human Relations Club, Hamden Public Schools; Nick Collicelli, Director of Social Studies(2002)

  • The Six to Six Interdistrict Magnet School, Bridgeport, CT, Principal: Leslie Alexander (2003)

  • The Metropolitan Learning Center Interdistrict Magnet School for Global and International Studies, Bloomfield, CT, Principal: Suzi D’Annolfo (2004)

  • The Discovery Center, Farmington, CT, Cheryl Burke, Director (2005)

  • University of Hartford, Walter Harrison, President (2006)

  • Echoes and Reflections - developed by the Anti-Defamation League, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and Yad Vashem (A program of the Anti-Defamation League of Connecticut), Marji Lipshez-Shapiro, Director of Education (2007)

  • The Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut (2008)
     

Loel Greene Title IX/Gender Equity Achievement of the Year 
 
IN MEMORIAM

 LOEL L. GREENE  August 10, 2004

LOEL L. GREENE, 59, of Hood Avenue, an educational specialist with Educational Alliance at Brown University, Providence, for 10 years, died unexpectedly Tuesday at home after an illness. He was the husband of Ellen (Martin) Greene. They had been married for 37 years. Born in Albany, N.Y., a son of Dorothy (Parker) Greene of Westport, Conn., and the late Joel Greene, he was raised in Albany and had lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York before moving to Rhode Island 11 years ago, and to East Providence in 2000. Mr. Greene was a 1965 graduate of Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, N.H. He received a master's degree in 1972 from Keene (N.H.) State College, and his ABD (formerly known as CAGS) from UMass.-Amherst. He volunteered for the National Guard during the Vietnam War.He was an active member of both AGELE (Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education), and NAME (National Association of Multicultural Education). Mr. Greene was a world traveler and an art enthusiast. As a youth, he attended Camp Cayuga, on Schroon Lake, N.Y., for 17 years. Besides his wife and mother, he leaves a daughter, Pruett E. Cunningham of Wrentham, Mass.; a son, Matthew Greene of Groton, Vt., a sister, Ralle Greenberg of Weston, Conn; and five grandchildren.

  • RuthAnn Lobo, Title IX Coordinator – Granby Public Schools (2003)

  • Carol Winiski, Connecticut Juvenile Training Center (2004)

  • True Colors, Inc., Robin McHaelen, Executive Director (2006)

  • Alice Pritchard, Executive Director, Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund (2007)

 

 

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